You know lunch’s approaching and you stomache’s telling you that it would appreciate some food. You’d be sad to know that we removed the old styled menu’s that we had on places.ae, but you’d be glad to know that we took it off to improve it. Just look for the icon in your search results, [...]

Hi all, We had a small change in the search engine, for a while we implemented Sphinx, but we noticed that some searches were returning complete different results. So, we put it back to the original homebrew search algorithm we had. We’re re-assessing and fine-tuning sphinx to give us better results, but at the moment, [...]

Hi all, We updated the comments engine. With following changes: if there’s a large number of comments, these will be hidden from the initial view. the order of comments is reversed, the latest comments are now on top No more anonymity, you can set your name even when not logged in so it won’t show [...]

Hi all, Ho ho ho, Christmas is coming early this year. After several customer requests, and some internal code changes, you can now view the menus and brochures of places that are on places.ae. When seeing the search results, you will notice a new icon next to some of the places, such as next to [...]

Dear all, It took a while, but we upgraded places.ae’s features again. Several users asked for some of these, and we thank you all for your feedback. If we’d add “versioning” to places.ae, then this would be version 3.1, seeing the 3 big layout and code rewrites we had before, then this. (The layout will [...]

Hi all, In terms of recession, you might have to rely on technology, rather than a personal assistants to find you the information you need. Places.ae has a new service that allows you to get requested information in your email box. How does it works? Simple, you send an email to ask@places.ae and in the [...]